Yared Tsegaye Akin to the recently introduced national motto in all government offices and beyond, “Ethiopia, a New Horizon of Hope”, which brings a single page (dashboard) of 100 days plan, the Office of Attorney General is preparing a draft bill aiming to curb hate speech and bring accountability towards public speeches and every other…

The U.S. Government has provided new school materials for 147,000 displaced children in Oromia, Somali, and SNNPR regional states. Through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), this effort is aimed at protecting vulnerable children’s rights to education following internal conflicts that have displaced approximately 2 million people in Ethiopia. USAID and the Ministry…

Mitiku* sits cross-legged in ruin of demolished houses located in the city center around Arat Kilo. He stares at pedestrians passing through the road in front of him. He is looking for his customers to come early this time. The place is known as “Eri-Bekentu” that denotes where gang violence is pervasive. As a result…

People from all walks of life and across the nation had expressed their sadness pertaining to the sudden death of Engineer Simegnew Bekele, the Grand Renaissance Dam Manager. A true Ethiopian determined to live by the sweat of his brow, he had played a great role in the construction of the dam. Until he closed…

In Canada, more than 500 doctors and residents, as well as over 150 medical students, have signed a public letter protesting their own pay raises. “We, Quebec doctors who believe in a strong public system, oppose the recent salary increases negotiated by our medical federations,” the letter says. The group say they are offended that they…

By Katherine Lam | Fox News FOX NEWS – Two suicide bombers attacked a church in Pakistan where hundreds of worshippers were attending service ahead of Christmas, killing at least nine people and injuring dozens of others, officials said. One of the suicide bombers was shot dead outside Bethel Memorial Methodist Church in Quetta, but the…

→ Food inflation hit 18.1pc last month In the wake of exchange rate adjustment, Ethiopia witnesses the highest food inflation in almost five years despite the measures taken by the central government to control the money supply. Food inflation hit 18.1pc last month, two percentage points higher than that of the month before, according to the…

By Hyung-Jin Kim | AP December 12 at 9:21 PM WESTERN LIAONING PROVINCE, China — The North Korean woman drives a motorbike slowly down a narrow lane shaded by tall corn to the farmhouse where she lives with the disabled Chinese man who bought her.It’s been 11 years since she was lured across the border by the prospect of…

By Ben Evansky | Fox News United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley held a meeting on the human rights situation in North Korea where one defector spoke about how she was forced to have an abortion following her repatriation from China. The woman, Ji Hyeon-A, describes a harrowing scene of prison dogs eating…

By Associated Press December 11 at 1:20 AM UKHIA, Bangladesh — An Associated Press investigation has found that the rape of Rohingya women by Myanmar’s security forces has been sweeping and methodical. The AP interviewed 29 women and girls who said they were raped by Myanmar’s armed forces. The women were interviewed separately, come from a wide…